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UIL 2Q profit down on warm weather
Fri,3 Aug 2012 03:17 PM PDT
Associated Press - UIL Holdings Corp. reported Friday that its second-quarter profit fell as warm weather hurt demand for the utility company's gas business, but its full year-forecast was roughly in line with expectations. Full Story | Top |
Judge dismisses lawsuit over Wyoming coal leases
Fri,3 Aug 2012 07:44 AM PDT
Associated Press - A federal judge has dismissed a legal challenge from environmental groups that sought to block federal coal leases in Wyoming's Powder River Basin on the grounds that burning the coal would contribute to global warming. Full Story | Top |
MIA on Climate Change
Thu,2 Aug 2012 11:41 PM PDT
National Journal - This year's unremitting heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and freak storms have thrust climate change back into the spotlight. But even with the issue fresh in people's minds—not to mention in media coverage and Washington's echo chamber—climate change hasn't made it onto the priority list that matters most: the presidential campaign trail. Full Story | Top |
Dust from Asia pollutes US, Canada air: study
Thu,2 Aug 2012 12:51 PM PDT
AFP -  Dust and aerosol pollution from Asia travels across the ocean and sullies the air in the United States and Canada, possibly worsening the effects of climate change, a NASA-backed study showed Thursday.
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Light rain as weather system shifts
Thu,2 Aug 2012 12:16 PM PDT
Reuters -  CHICAGO (Reuters) - The drought-hit U.S. Midwest will be left high and dry as fresh weather updates indicate a tropical weather system now at the edge of the Caribbean Sea will not bring any moisture to the area when it makes landfall in about 10 days, an agricultural meteorologist said on Thursday. Known as tropical depression 5, the system initially was expected to reach landfall on August 11-12 near Beaumont, Texas near the Texas-Louisiana border and potentially bring rain into the drought-stricken U.S. Plains and Midwest, according to Drew Lerner, meteorologist for World Weather Inc. ...
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Climate change threatens California power supply: report
Tue,31 Jul 2012 08:20 PM PDT
Reuters - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's electricity sector is more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought, as higher temperatures will impede the state's ability to generate and transmit power while demand for air conditioning rises, a report said Tuesday. The data is part of the latest report released by the California Natural Resources Agency and the California Energy Commission, which are trying to help state and local leaders prepare for life in the hotter, drier California of the future. (Report: http://r.reuters. ... Full Story | Top |
Native American Communities Suffer Most from Climate Change
Tue,31 Jul 2012 01:57 PM PDT
Takepart.com - Extreme weather, water scarcity, coastal erosion, and other devastating effects of climate change will bring disproportionate harm to Native American populations, as many indigenous communities rely heavily on natural resources for their livelihoods and ways of life, a report by PBS Newshour shows. Full Story | Top |
PSE&G 2nd-quarter profit falls on lower prices
Tue,31 Jul 2012 07:59 AM PDT
Associated Press - Warmer-than-usual winter weather and lower prices weighed on electrical utility and power producer Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. in its second quarter and its net income declined. Full Story | Top |
Fresh iPhone Apps for July 31: Weather HD 2 Free, HipGeo update, Jurassic Park Builder
Tue,31 Jul 2012 05:15 AM PDT
Appolicious - We've got some solid updates to start your Tuesday. Up first is a big update to Weather HD that brings a whole new version of the app, with 3-D maps and animations to bring you better weather information. Travel app HipGeo also received an update, adding video capabilities and creating travelogues based on locations from the experiences, photos and videos of its users. Finally, Jurassic Park Builder turns the 1992 classic film into a game in which you create your own dinosaur park, paddock by paddock. Full Story | Top |
Former Global Warming Skeptic Makes a 'Total Turnaround'
Tue,31 Jul 2012 04:30 AM PDT
LiveScience.com -  A prominent scientist who was skeptical of the evidence that climate change was real, let alone that it was caused by humans, now says he has made a "total turnaround." Richard Muller, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, says he has become convinced that "the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct," and that humans are "almost entirely the cause" of that warming.
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East Africa's forests shrink, especially near parks
Tue,31 Jul 2012 03:24 AM PDT
Reuters - OSLO (Reuters) - Forests in East Africa have shrunk over the past years, especially around the fringes of parks, complicating efforts to protect wildlife and fight climate change, a study showed on Monday. The report indicated that forest cover decreased by about 9.3 percent overall from 2001-09 in about 12 nations studied. Losses were biggest in Uganda and Rwanda, while only southern Sudan - which is now the independent country South Sudan - made fractional gains. ... Full Story | Top |
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